Tadashi Kawamata

Born in 1953, Kawamata achieved international recognition with his participation in the Venice Biennale in 1982, and has since held exhibitions at Documenta and La Biennale de Lyon, to name a few. Kawamata currently is a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His works today range from architecture and city planning, to historiography and sociology, to daily communications, to medicine.

Born in 1953 in Mikasa, Hokkaido, Japan

Lives and works in Paris, France

Education

1981 MFA, Tokyo National University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2020 Construction, Japan House Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

2020 Insertion into City Life, BankART Station, BankART Temporary, Bashamichi station, Yokohama

2020 Shiseido window installation, Shiseido the Store, Tokyo

2019 Destruction, kamel mennour, Paris, France

2019 Destruction / Reconstruction, Annely Juda Fine Art, London, UK

2018 Over Flow, Museum Art Architecture Technology, Lisbon, Portugal

2017 Early Works, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo

2017 Crossroads, Kiyotsu Warehouse Museum, Niigata

2017 The Shower, Made in Cloister, Naples, Italy

2017 Starting Over, Under Construction, Art Front Gallery, Tokyo

2016 Under the water, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France

2015 Kawamata Maquettes 1983-2015, kamel mennour, Paris, France

2014 Stairs, Annely Juda Fine Art, London, UK

2014 Box construction II, Gallery 604, Busan, Korea

2014 Project Document TOKYO IN PROGRESS 2010-2013, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan

2014 Prekaere Konstruktionen, Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Switzerland

2013 Scheiterturm / Log Tower, Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Switzerland

2013 HORIZONS: Project Les Sentiers de l’eau ,en Camargue, Musee de la Camargue, France

2013 Collectie Folie, Parc la Villette, Paris, France

2012 Expand BankART, BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama, Japan

2012 Box construction Daegu, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea

2012 Box construction, Gallery 604, Busan, Korea

2011 Under the water, Kamel Mennour, Paris, France

2010 The Tree Hut in Masan, Masan Moonshin Art Museum, Masan, Korea

2010 Tree Hut, Carton Workshop, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

Selected Group Exhibitions

2020 Vladivostok International Biennale of Visual Arts, Vladivostok, Russia

2020 Helsinki Biennial 2020, Helsinki, Finland

2020 Drawings, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo

2019 Weavers of Worlds – A Century of Flux in Japanese, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo

2019 on sculpture – between line and figure, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo

2019 The Nature Rules: Dreaming of Earth Project, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

2019 Multiples, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo

2018 EGON SCHIELE The Jubilee Show RELOADED, Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria

2018 Culture City of East Asia 2018 Kanazawa Altering Home, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan

2018 Art on the Road-Three Traveling Exhibitions From the Hara Museum, Hara Museum Arc, Gunma, Japan

2017 JAPAN ALPS ART FESTIVAL 2017, Shinano, Niigata, Japan

2017 OpenART Biennale 2017, Örebro, Sweden

2017 JAPAN ALPS ART FESTIVAL 2017, Omachi, Nagano Prefecture, Japan

2016 KNOCK ON WOOD, Magda Danysz, Paris,France

2015 Tsumari Diorama, Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, Niigata, Japan

2014 Triennale Brugge 2015, Bruges, Belgium

2014 Collection Becoming, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan

2014 La Chaire, Kibe Project, Kunisaki Art Festival 2014,Kunisaki City, Oita, Japan

2014 MAK-Permanent Collection Asia (China-Japan-Korea), MAK-Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art,Vienna, Austria

2014 Japon, Centre d’art contemporain (cac), Meymac, France

2013 Unstable Territory, Center for Contemporary Culture Strozzina, Plazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy

2013 Garden Tower in Toronto, Toronto Nuit Blanche 2013, Canada

2013 Tree hut in the Place Vendome, FIAC 2013, Paris, France

2013 SITE- Place of Memories, Spaces with Potential, Hiroshima City Museum of Modern Art, Hiroshima, Japan

2013 Favela Cafe, Art Basel, Switzerland

2012 Chairs for Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Art Fair, UAE

2012 Exchange Library, FIAC, Paris, France

2012 Echigo Tsumari Art Triennale, Niigata, Japan

2010 Mukaijima Project The Island Made by the Island, Setouchi International Art Festival, Kagawa, Japan

2010 Walkway and Tower, EMSCHERKUNST 2010, Essen, Germany

Selected Projects

2020 Sendai in Progress, Sendai, Miyagi

2019 Belvedere de l’hermitage, Nantes, France

2019 Project in Tremblay-en-France, Tremblay-en-France, France

2018 Hokkaido in Progress (Iwamizawa Project 2018), Iwamizawa, Hokkaido

2017 Tokyo in Progress (Shioiri Tower) Closing Event, Tokyo

2017 Hokkaido in Progress (Iwamizawa Project 2017), Iwamizawa, Hokkaido

2015 Guangzhou project, Guangzhou, China

2014 Tront Lamp Post,Waterfront Tront, Tront, Canada

2014 Hokkaido in Progress (Mikasa project 2014), Mikasa, Hokkaido, Japan

2013 Tree hut in the Place Vendome, FIAC 2013, Paris, France

2013 Camarguve boat tour, Arles, France

2013 ESCALE” et “DECISE, Arles, France

2013 Project Les Sentiers de l’eau ,en Camargue HORIZONS, Musee de la Camargue, France

2013 Au fil de la SAONE, Lyon, France

2013 Tokyo in Progress Closing Event, Tokyo, Japan

2013 Hokkaido in Progress (Mikasa project 2013), Mikasa, Hokkaido, Japan

2012 Corner Structure, Bonn, Germany

2012 Favela in Gent, Track, Gent, Belgium

2012 Tokyo in Progress (Toyosu Dome), Tokyo, Japan

2012 Tokyo in Progress (Tsukuda Terrace), Tokyo Culture Creation Project, Tokyo

2012 Hokkaido in Progress (Mikasa project 2012), Mikasa, Hokkaido, Japan

2011 Workshop Camargue, Les Sentiers De L’eau- Water Path 2, Marseille-Provence Musee de Camargue, Franceance

2011 Workshop at Bergloon, Belgium, Z33- huis voor actuele kunst, Hasselt, Belgium

2011 Cergy Pontoise Art commission work, Cergy Pontoise, France

2011 Chaumont sur Loire Project Chateau de Chaumont, Chaumont sur Loire, France

2011 Hokkaido in Progress (Mikasa project 2011), Hokkaido, Japan

2011 Tokyo in Progress (Shioiri Tower), Tokyo, Japan

2010 Drift Structure, Uster, Switzerland

2010 Tokyo in Progress, Tokyo, Japan